Rory Allen, owner of the Ballymaloe Grainstore, at the launch of the 2019 Ballymaloe Craft Fair. (Image: Cathal Noonan)

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The Ballymaloe Craft Fair is back and it is bigger than ever to help kick off the Christmas shopping season.

The celebrations will begin on Friday the 15 th November from 6pm to 9pm and will run throughout Saturday the 16 th and Sunday the 17 th from 10am to 6pm in a heated and completely covered area.

The 150 stalls on display will feature an impressive collection of crafty goods, from textiles, glassware, sculpture and art pieces to woodwork, jewellery, leather goods and Christmas decorations while there will also be numeorus place to enjoy gourmet food and alcoholic beverages.

The will also be a number of workshops to enjoy such as the Punch Needle Rug Making Workshop with Wild Wool Way, the Felt Making Workshop with Woolly Crafts and the Metal Pendant Workshop with 9 Irons Forge, the Christmas Candle Making Workshop with Killarney Candle Makers as well as a Chocolate Making Demo that will be presented by Koko Kinsale.

The event is priced at just €5 for adults while children under 12 will be admitted for free and customers can also avail of the free parking on site.

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Rory Allen, owner of the Ballymaloe Grainstore, has said: “It’s a real milestone for us to be celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Craft Fair this year and we get a great sense of pride from the fact that it’s a calendar highlight for many people.

"The event brings visitors from all over the country to the Ballymaloe Grainstore, so we work harder and harder each year to ensure they’re suitably impressed by what we and our stallholders have to offer.

"On a practical level, the Ballymaloe Craft Fair is the perfect place to start your Christmas shopping and support local in the process, but it also gives people the chance to get lost in the magic of the festive season for the day. The Craft Fair is our answer to the famous Christmas markets you would find in Berlin or Manchester – and in our opinion it’s even better!”